How can I use technology to transform my current practices and prepare my students for the Web 2.0 world?
Publishing and sharing student work
Blogs: Creating a way for students to post their work--Blogger.com
How to get your class started with a blogging process--a great step-by-step video from an Art teacher who brought blogging into her practice.
Some blogs worth exploring
Social Networks: Create a way for students to interact with each other--Ning
Some Ning sites worth exploring
Classroom 2.0--a Ning for those interesting in using Web 20 tools in their classrooms. Great discussions and tips
How students can share their slide shows (PowerPoint) on-line (so they can get feedback from others and not have to carry them around)
Research and reading
Social bookmarking: Creating a way for you to save and share bookmarks (and to make notes on bookmarked pages)--Diigo.com Subscribing: Creating a way to stay on top of what others are saying: RSS subscriptions and Google reader
How to use the RSS feed function to subscribe to blogs and other regularly updated sites
Feeds of interest to English teachers
How can I use technology to transform my current practices and prepare my students for the Web 2.0 world?
Publishing and sharing student work
Blogs: Creating a way for students to post their work--Blogger.com
How to get your class started with a blogging process--a great step-by-step video from an Art teacher who brought blogging into her practice.
- Some blogs worth exploring
Social Networks: Create a way for students to interact with each other--Ning- Some Ning sites worth exploring
- Classroom 2.0--a Ning for those interesting in using Web 20 tools in their classrooms. Great discussions and tips
How students can share their slide shows (PowerPoint) on-line (so they can get feedback from others and not have to carry them around)Research and reading
Social bookmarking: Creating a way for you to save and share bookmarks (and to make notes on bookmarked pages)--Diigo.com
Subscribing: Creating a way to stay on top of what others are saying: RSS subscriptions and Google reader
How to use the RSS feed function to subscribe to blogs and other regularly updated sites
Feeds of interest to English teachers
- The English Companion (Jim Burke)
New model for the research processPodcasting
Great information and tutorials on how to create a podcast
Podcasting in Plain English video
Web 2.0 Literacy
Learning the tools of web 2.0